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Intellectual property infringements due to R&D abroad? A comparative analysis between firms with international and domestic R&D activities
Schmiele, Anja - 2010
This paper aims at analysing the risk of intellectual property (IP) infringements by competitors from abroad and in particular whether this risk is higher for international innovating firms. We distinguish three different types of IP infringements from abroad: the usage of firms' technical...
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Digitisation and European copyright protection : between economic challenges and stakeholder interests
Möller, Marie - 2016
The increasing digitisation necessitates amendments to copyright protection. Both the European Parliament and the … with regard to copyright protection in a digital economy. For example, consumers (private or institutional users) have an … Parliament’s proposal for copyright reform sides more with the suppliers than with the consumers. Future policy at EU level …
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Digitalisierung und europäischer Urheberschutz : zwischen ökonomischen Herausforderungen und Stakeholder-Interessen
Möller, Marie - 2016
Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung macht Anpassungen des Urheberschutzes erforderlich. Sowohl das Europäische Parlament als auch die Europäische Kommission haben dazu inzwischen Vorschläge vorgelegt. Hintergrund ist, dass die Art, wie kreative Güter produziert und verbreitet werden, durch...
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Authors’ Earnings from Copyright and Non-Copyright Sources : A Survey of 25,000 British and German Writers
Kretschmer, Martin; Hardwick, Philip - 2015
Nations, Book I, Ch. 10) By the nineteenth century, it was thought that copyright law may provide a solution. As Thomas … Babington (Lord) Macaulay argued in a famous speech on copyright reform in the House of Commons (5 February 1841): “…there are … only two ways in which [men of letters] can be remunerated. One of those is patronage; the other is copyright.” In a …
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Determinants of Patent Litigation in Germany
Cremers, Katrin - 2004
This paper presents an empirical analysis of the determinants of patent litigation in Germany, based on information from suits filed during the period from 1993 to 1995 at two of the three most important district courts. A control group was formed by selecting a random sample from the population...
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Did Concentration on Core Competencies Drive Merger and Acquisition Activities in the 1990s? Empirical Evidence for Germany
Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
In the context of increasing globalization of markets, merger and acquisition activities in the 1990s are said to be driven by reorganization processes with respect to concentration on firms? core competencies in order to increase or maintain market power in international markets. This paper...
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Citation Frequency and the Value of Patented Innovation
Vopel, Katrin; Scherer, Frederic M.; Narin, Francis; … - 1997
Through a survey, economic value estimates were obtained on 962 inventions made in the United States and Germany and on which German patent renewal fees were paid to full-term expiration in 1995. A search of subsequent U.S. and German patents yielded a count of citations to those patents....
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Exploring the Tail of Patented Invention Value Distributions
Scherer, Frederic M.; Harhoff, Dietmar; Vopel, Katrin - 1997
We explore the tail of patented invention value distributions by using value estimates obtained directly from patent holders. The paper focuses on those full-term German patents of the application year 1977 which were held by West German and U.S. residents. The most valuable patents in our data...
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Commercializing Academic Research: The Quality of Faculty Patenting
Schneider, Cédric; Hussinger, Katrin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2008
The knowledge produced by academic scientists has been identified as a potential key driver of technological progress. Recent policies in Europe aim at increasing commercially orientated activities in academe. Based on a sample of German scientists across all fields of science we investigate the...
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Patent Thickets, Licensing and Innovative Performance
Müller, Elisabeth; MacGarvie, Megan J.; Cockburn, Iain M. - 2008
We examine the relationship between fragmented intellectual property (IP) rights and innovative performance, taking into consideration the role played by in-licensing of IP. Controlling for a variety of firm and market characteristics, we find that firms facing more fragmented IP landscapes are...
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